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Please post only vintage photos from the original era '66-'72. Modern day photos of Historic Trans-Am photos can be posted in a separate thread or viewed on the Historic Trans-Am website ( www.historictransam.com ).

Craig Fisher's Z-28 at '67 Sebring tech inspection. This car is a true Z-28 which was repaintedwith gold accents by Gorries Chevrolet in Toronto, Canada. Gorries called these cars Black Panthers.Craig earned the first points for Chevrolet in the Trans-Am by virtue of his second place finishat the Daytona 300 Trans-Am, Feb 3rd, 1967. Craig also earned the first points for Pontiac inTrans-Am when he switched to a Firebird in the middle of the '68 racing season. Great driver,very underrated.

Photo taken on the streets of London, April 1967. This is the "sister car" to the Dana Camarodriven by Dick Guldstrand. It was built at the same time by Bobby Joe McDonald at Dana Chevrolet and it was driven by car owner and driver Thomas F. Lynch. It ran as car #28 at Sebring and thenleft immediately afterward to race in England and Europe over the summer and then returnedStateside to race in the Las Vegas 350 Trans-Am in the fall of '67. Raced by Tom in Trans-Am thru 1969.

Bob Brown in the maroon #5 Camaro and Craig Fisher in the #3. On the grid for thestart of the '67 Sebring 4-Hour Trans-Am race. Brown's car was built with the helpof "Murph" Mayberry, same guy who built Mark Donohue's first Z-28. Fisher's car wasbuilt by the legendary Doug Duncan, who resides in the Canadian Motorsports Hall of Fame. By the way, Craig Fisher is in CMHOF also, both deservedly so.

Joe, thanks for posting the picture. Of note about that particular car, it was not a real Z-28 but was a 6-cylinder car that Don Yenko bought at a dealer auction. Jerry Thompson and his partners at RST Engineering in Clawson, MI prepared that car for Don to race. It was not race prepared by Yenko. This was told to me personally by Jerry Thompson himself. You will notice that it is a Marina blue car but has black stripes. The black stripes were not available with Marina blue unless you got a black vinyl top. You can see that the stripes on the back of Yenko's cargo pretty much right up to the bottom of the rear window. If you look at the Johnny Moore car below (photo taken at the '67 Sebring Trans-Am)you see original Z stripes didn't go that far up. Might have been an opening for debate there had I not spoken with Jerry Thompson and gottenthe inside story. Thompson was the original driver for the blue car while Yenko was serving a 6 month suspension for ignoring a black flag.

Joie Chitwood, Jr pours some brake fluid into the master cylinder as they are doing a brake bleeding jobprior to the '67 Sebring 4-hour Trans-Am. Blue Chevy truck behind Joie has a Dana Chevrolet licenseplate frame on it. Probably towed the Dick Guldstrand car out to Florida from California.

This pic is not exactly as it seems. It is a Camaro, but before this it was a Titus/Godsall (Pontiac T/A Team) built customer car. One of 6 cars constructed for the '69 season, it had a lot of trick parts. The Pontiac factory was giving a bit of help to the team and providing engineering advise and parts.

There is one train of thought that these cars were Camaros to start with, but they would have been body shells, and separate panels perhaps.

This particular car was supplied to Richard Brown, Canadian racer, and he campaigned it originally as a Firebird in orange from the 69 St Jovite race onwards, and later, 70 onwards as a Camaro, to legitimately use the Z/28 302, which the Pontiacs had been allowed to use in 68 and 69, as it helped get another manufacturer on board.

The car was raced as a Camaro by several subsequent owners, but when it was no longer deemed to be raceable it was stripped of the brakes and gauges (which went into a street car) no doubt the engine and gearbox found new homes, but the body was literally buried. It will not be unearthed.

I do not know who took this pic, but I ould like to graciously thank the rightful owner, and credit that person.

Jerry Thompson, Don Stoeckel, Dick Rutherford, (RST) worked together at Chevy and raced together. They also had a side business where they sold racing parts. I have seen Yenko receipts where they sold parts to Yenko in 1966-67 for racing Camaros.